simplerserver.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import socket

listener = socket.socket()
listener.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
listener.bind(('', 8000))
listener.listen(5)

while True:
    s, addr = listener.accept()
    print 'server received connection from', addr
    request = s.recv(10000)
    print 'request we received:', request
    method, rest = request.split(' ', 1)
    path, rest = rest.split(None, 1)
    s.send('HTTP/0.9 200 OK\n\n')
    with open('.'+path) as f:
        s.sendall(f.read())
    s.close()